AUBURN â A bankruptcy filing this week blocked a sheriffâs sale of the Heron Lake property south of Auburn.
Heron Development filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday afternoon in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
A document signed by Heron Development managing member Stephen Brown said the filing is âfor the purpose of restricting the companyâs finances and stop the Sheriffâs sale scheduled for April 22, 2021.â
In December 2020, a DeKalb County judge ordered that the 300-acre housing development south of Auburn should be sold in a sheriffâs sale Thursday.
DeKalb County court documents show that the developers owe $5 million to Marquee Investments LLC of Fort Wayne. Marquee Investments would have been able use that sum to bid on the property, according to court documents.
AUBURN — A 71-year-old Tennessean was sentenced to four years of probation for dealing in marijuana by Judge Monte Brown in a video hearing Monday in DeKalb Superior Court II.
AUBURN â An Auburn man who possessed a âhuge amount of methamphetamineâ was ordered to serve one year on work release, followed by 18 months on home detention, as terms of his probation by Judge Monte Brown during a hearing in DeKalb Superior Court II Monday.
Michael Pinkerton, 44, of the 300 block of West 9th Street, pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine, a Level 3 felony.
Brown imposed a nine-year suspended sentence and placed Pinkerton on probation, with the work release and home detention components as requirements at the outset of his probation.
DeKalb County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Neal Blythe noted a significant amount of methamphetamine â 75 grams â was involved in the case.
AUBURN â DeKalb County courts had implemented special measures to address COVID-19 health and safety issues during courtroom proceedings long before Mondayâs Indiana Supreme Court order suspending jury trials until March 1, 2021.
The Supreme Court cited a need for drastic measures as COVID-19 continues to surge. In-person jury trials pose an exceptional risk to everyone involved â even if every precaution is taken, the court said.
Since the Supreme Court authorized that jury trials could resume in July after being suspended in March of this year, three jury trials have taken place in DeKalb Superior Court I, Judge Kevin Wallace said. Two of the cases involved dealing in methamphetamine and one involved a charge of child molesting.